Robert Musil: "Attempts to Find Another Human Being": "Little Patch of Yellow Wall" : Musil, Proust, Numero Cinq, Metaphors, Death and Timelessness

Thursday, February 6, 2014

"Little Patch of Yellow Wall" : Musil, Proust, Numero Cinq, Metaphors, Death and Timelessness

The wonderfully eclectic and fresh online Journal, Numero Cinq has just published an essay of mine on Musil and Proust. Some of the material in this essay ended up in my book, but not all of it.

Marcel and I in my boudoir.

Here is a link to their fancy site:

Numéro Cinq » A warm place on a cruel web

numerocinqmagazine.com/‎

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Attempts to Find Another Human Being

Around 1923 Musil planned to publish a collection of his essays under the title, "Versuche einen anderen Menschen zu finden" (Attempts to Find Another Human Being). In his notebooks he wrote:

"In fact, this could be the title for everything that I have ever written. I can think of no other excuse for spending one's whole life at a writing desk to become a beggar. [...] I can only imagine another duty with great difficulty. I have always been a writer, always pursued writing.
It has come to pass in my life that people have scolded me for it and have called me a sick human being, an intellectual, an unmoral human being, a scientist, in short, everything that I am not, and only with resistance, under the pressure of a few, people have become accustomed to thinking of me as what I believe myself to be, and want to be: a writer."